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Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., speaks to reporters following in front of the House Oversight Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 18, 2026. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

House bill wants CIOs, agency heads to hit the gas on legacy IT phase-outs

The bipartisan Legacy IT Reduction Act would require CIOs to inventory legacy systems and agency heads to plan for hastened retirements, updates or modernization.
IRS CEO Frank Bisignano, center, talks with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., right, in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House passes two bills to modernize IRS operations

The BARCODE Efficiency Act and the Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act would embrace technology and help the IRS “be an agency more worthy of the taxpayers it serves.”
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From left, Sens. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., Mark Warner, D-Va., and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, attend a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee markup in the Dirksen building on July 29, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Warner, Rounds float federal commission to guide AI policymaking

The bipartisan Economy of the Future Commission Act seeks to deliver bipartisan policy solutions geared toward solving AI workforce challenges.
People use IRS Direct File at the Internal Revenue Service Building on April 05, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Economic Security Project)

Bill backed by 160 Democrats seeks rebirth of IRS’s Direct File

The legislation would make the free electronic filling tool a permanent program and bar the Treasury secretary from sabotaging it through other agreements.
Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., speaks during a press conference on Jan. 9, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

NIST bill for small business AI assistance passes House

The Small Business Artificial Intelligence Advancement Act tasks the NIST director with developing a suite of AI resources aimed at helping Main Street, lawmakers say.
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